PPCG again will have a table at the 2020 Philadelphia Pen Show. Come over on Saturday, January 18th, and to say “Hello,” then join us at the hotel bar/restaurant in the main floor lobby for our Second Annual Pen Show Meet-Up. Stop by for lunch, a snack or beverage and show your latest pen finds. It will really be fun for us all.

Come by starting at 2:00, see your old pen friends and meet some new ones!

We’re looking forward to seeing you!

https://philadelphiapenshow.com/

Philadelphia 201 Hotel (formerly the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown) 201 North 17th Street – Philadelphia

Topic:

How’s the show going  and what have you gotten so far!?

In Memoriam…

We’re saddened to hear of the passing of Ed Budman, a Philadelphia Pen Collectors Group member.  We’ve received the following email from Ed’s son, which we are sharing here:

PHILADELPHIA PEN COLLECTORS GROUP

Meeting at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA (upstairs)

March 24, 2018, 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM

SPECIAL MEETING COMBINING PPCG AND PUBLETTERS

Please RSVP: phillyrichard@philadelphiapens.com

Publetters is a group that Mike McGettigan, a PPCG member, sponsors where people get together to write letters. We will start with a short session on improving our handwriting toward increased legibility and then proceed to write a letter to a person of your choice.

Our meeting will include:

· Handwriting improvement and your readers.

· “Seven and a half things about Letter Writing (one of which is Publetters) We will have some stationery, envelopes & stamps on               hand and there’s a mail box down the street from our meeting location. We will have a “cheat sheet” of notable mailing addresses,             but bring your address book as well. If you have any interesting old letterhead or stationery to share, we’d love to see it.

· What I bought (or learned) at the Philly Pen Show

Getting there:

Fergie’s Pub is close to City Hall Philadelphia and accessible by nearly every form of transit known to penkind, including Market East Station, 13th St. Market-Frankford and Subway Surface Station, Patco Line 12th-13th Locust Station, a whole slew of SEPTA bus routes, and the Broad Street Subway Walnut-Locust stop. If you drive, there are parking garages in the area and even on-street parking is not out of the question. PLEASE READ parking signage very carefully!

We look forward to seeing you on the 24th!

Fergie’s menu: http://www.fergies.com/menu/

All food service will be on an individual basis.

Pen Club/IFS Flashdrive: Pen Club; Meeting Flyers; Meeting Flyere 20180324

Philadelphia Pen Collectors Group

FLOCK TO THIS MEETING ON MAY 6, 2017

Time: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Location: Michael’s Restaurant & Jewish Delicatessen, 130 Town Center Rd., Valley Forge Center Route 202, King of Prussia, PA 19406.

Michael’s is on Town Center Road, first left turn at the top of the hill, DeKalb Pick, aka Route 202, east of the King of Prussia Mall at Routes 202 and 362. Please check your favorite GPS or Internet map website for the location.

Lunch is available from the menu and is reasonably priced.

RSVP to: flexnib@email.com by May 1, 2017.

Joshua Danley Presents Pelikan Pens

• Learn how to identify and distinguish one Pelikan from another
• Find out how to date a Pelikan
• Highlight some of the history behind a few rare limited edition pieces,

Joshua is the blogger behind “The Pelikan’s Perch” website founded in 2014 and dedicated to the Pelikan fountain pens. He is a PPCG member and collector of Pelikan Pens.

He will be fortified by his collection of over 100 Pelikans for us to see, learn about and enjoy.

And in addition, he will bring some Edelstein inks for sampling.

There will be ample time for Joshua to address any questions we may have as well.

Joshua’s blog is “The Pelikan’s Perch.”. It’s a source for all brand news about fine writing instruments as well as generating a lot of original content. The site currently has more than a thousand followers. You can find “The Pelikan’s Perch” at: http://www.thepelikansperch.com

This will be an exciting event. Don’t miss it!

Found out today that  our email was down for a couple of days, so if you emailed us or filled out our contact form between Feb. 9 and 12:30 today it didn’t go through so please resend to us now.

In 2008 we created the Club website using the proprietary site builder provided by Register.com.  That tool became somewhat outdated over the years but the only way to use a more current tool was to recreate the entire site.  As long as we were going to do that it made sense to use a tool that was more universal than Register.com’s latest, but still proprietary tool, so the site has now been rebuilt using WordPress.

We invite you to report any mistakes and to make any suggestions.

The Philadelphia Pen Show was January 13-15 in a new hotel and with a new host/sponsor, Franklin Christoph.  We thank them for their generosity and hospitality in providing a table for the Club to promote itself to those in attendance.

102 new members signed up for the club.  We look forward to seeing you at upcoming events!

The site has been updated for the first time in a while.

…Myself, I like an occasional dip into the past, and at the Sheraton I find kindred spirits. What brings us here? “It’s an aesthetic,” says Richard Kunin, who’s staffing a table for the Philadelphia Pen Collectors Group, a loose-knit organization of pen enthusiasts…